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Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context /
The eleventh-century philosopher and physician Abu Ali ibn Sina (d. A.D. 1037) was known in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna. An analysis of the sources and evolution of Avicenna's metaphysics, this book focuses on the answers he and his predecessors gave to two fundamental pairs of ques...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Aristotle / Perfection in the definitions of the soul and of change
- 2. Alexander and Themistius / Attempts at reconciliation
- 3. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius / The neoplatonic turn to causation
- 4. Proclus, Ammonius and Asclepius / Neoplatonic perfection and Aristotelian soul
- 5. Greek into Arabic / The Greco-Arabic translations and the early Arabic philosophers
- 6. Avicenna on perfection and the soul / The issue of separability
- 7. Essence and existence (A) / Materials from the Kalam and al-Farabi
- 8. Essence and existence (B) / Shay'iyya or Sababiyya?
- 9. Essence and existence (C) / The question of evolution
- 10. Causal self-sufficiency vs. causal productivity
- 11. Necessity and possibilty (A) / Materials from the Arabic Aristotle
- 12. Necessity and possibility (B) / Materials from al-Farabi
- 13. Necessity and possibility (C) / Materials from the Kalam
- 14. Necessity and possibility (D) / The question of evolution
- Conclusion
- Appendix I : Tables of Greco-Arabic translation
- Appendix II : transcriptions of Lemmata from MS Uppsala Or. 364.